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So did anyone see the Amazon.com sale? 100$ for a core. Woulda been a hell of a sale if A. there'd been more than a thousand of them, and B. every gaming news site in the world hadn't picked it up. They sold out in about 30 seconds. Maybe less, the site got laggy as hell about 2 minutes before the sale went up.

I suspect it's a IPB bug. And I can't do Firefox. It's not a browser I've used for any degree of time. If they maintain the menu structure of Mozilla, it'll be in edit/preferences dialog somewhere, but I'm not sure the menus are the same.

Clearing your browser cache before submitting the new avatar usually fixes it. Should be the last thing you do before clicking "upload avatar" I believe. Either that or right after entering the "edit avatar settings" page. Method for clearing the cache varies with browser, or I'd tell you where to go.

It's so BEAUTIFUL! ... Aside from the legs. But I expected a compromise somewhere.

Now, now... I'm pretty sure he looks right at home in a collection of Macross 2 models.

OG2 is out in the US today. Bump for great justice.

No, it's not. PCs can't even read the GameCube disks. Nintendo uses a funky data format that upsets them badly. There ARE adapters to use PS controllers on the 'Cube, though I'm not sure there's any decent flight sticks for the PS either. With a soldering iron and a sacrificial 'Cube pad, there's a good chance you could rebuild the PC stick.

I DID notice a tendency towards "backpacks" on them. Honestly, I'm still trying to figure out why Soundwave's wings don't have hinges to collapse them down. The design's really nice aside from that.

That WOULD explain some of the odd skin colorations...

Hypothetically, it's to protect the children, not make the evil villains more obvious(if it were, the law would require real guns to be bright colors and toy guns to be dark). Got put in after some kid removed himself from the gene pool by pulling a plastic gun on a cop. But people DO get brightly-colored real guns sometimes. Because they're "kewl gangstaz" or something. They don't exactly use it as a confusion tactic, though.

Ah.

Came out pretty good for no flash. Guess you have a pretty stable hand.

Less magic. Song energy/anima spiritia is still magic. It just isn't as ... pronounced... as Zero's magic(in that it needs technological harnessing to do anything interesting).

I'm sure you actually did need the flash(or a tripod and a LONG shutter time). I'm equally sure the camera guessed wrong on what the subject was and fired the flash too strongly/opened the aperture too wide/exposed the frame for too long. It was probably trying to make the gray background lighter, if I had to guess. If there's an exposure compensation option, try lowering it a little(I assume it's digital, so no wasted film if you do shots at -1 and -2 both). My Kodak will let you do exposure compensation, and it's got jack squat in the way of controls.

Somethin' strange... in the neighborhood. Who ya gonna call? GUNBUSTER!

The first two panels are also blatantly overexposed, which isn't helping matters. It's amazing how mind-numbingly stupid cameras can be sometimes.

You forgot the part where it turned out Hikaru was a clone of Roy, who was a clone of an alien. Or Roy was an alien and Hikaru was injected with alien cells. Or Max was the clone, and Hikaru just got brainwashed into thinking he was actually Max. It's really not very clear.

You'd think, but... I've got a US-release solid-orange GunCon that the paint scrapes off with a fingernail.

HAHAHA! That's the spirit! *grabs the Dremel, attaches "de-oranger" tool*

For the Super CD-ROM2 expansion, actually. (Also compatible is CD-ROM with Super System 2 card, Duo system, and CD-ROM with Arcade Card Pro. Yes, the PCEngine is a nightmare).

That suitcase uses TARDIS technology, doesn't it?

But the superposables were HG-licensed. As far as Macross/Robotech-related merchandise, HG has the final call on what Toynami does and doesn't do. I doubt they'd go "Yeah, we have no clue if we actually own that, but go ahead and do the release with our name on it." I don't recall the specifics of the legal mess involved in that one, though.

They sold a trio of DYRL superposables. I gather they didn't sell well. I think it was probably to bolster their claims of DYRL ownership.

Pretty much, as that company would have an unchallenged right. CHE filed for bankruptcy in 1991. They never came out of it, and no longer exist. I can't find info for BF&V, but I think they're dead too. This is part of the problem. You also lack imagination. There's a lot of lost contracts, verbal contracts, SEKRIT FILEZ!111*, and so forth. And then there's mergers, sales, buyouts... No one's sure who owns what anymore. Everyone's bought different parts of the dead companies, and multiple companies THINK they got the DYRL rights. If I recall, the big issue is that 3 different companies think they bought CHE's license. It's actually possible ALL the licenses expired years ago and no one knows it(or are at least pretending to not know). *The main license in this thread has never been seen by anyone in recent history. If I recall, the only people they've harassed that have ever actually seen it were FASA, and they were sworn to secrecy. HG expects everyone to just trust them, because obviously they're the guardians of truth and justice in the world, and if you disagree with them you're an evil lying thief. No. Short version: Tokyopop got a license from Big West for it. Tokyopop got a license from Harmony Gold for it, to avoid fighting with HG over royalties. BW said "Waitwaitwait... these guys are crazy, they don't own this. You can't release this if you're gonna put a HG sticker on it." and pulled the license.** Tokyopop ceased to have a manga to distribute, and canceled the release. ** At the time, BW was suing Tatsunoko over who owned the franchise. They REALLY didn't want Trash being released with a Tatsunoko licensee's label on it. Especially since HG presents Macross as being copyright Tatsunoko. Having Macross products showing up with Tatsunoko copyrights would hurt their stance greatly.

Plus was in pretty much constant release ever since, though. The VHS was still in print during the DVD release, and that factored into things. As I understand things, HG tried to sue over the + DVDs and got slapped because of the current VHS run. DYRL's been out of print for over a decade. If it comes back into print, HG will throw a hissy-fit. And with it out of print for so long, there's a bit more footing for them, though any competent lawyer should be able to point to the Super Space Fortress and Clash releases to make HG's alleged ownership of the franchise moot. If you ignore it at one point, you lose the right to attack it again later. But trademark issues could complicate things. I'm not entirely clear on how trademark works, but HG has trademarked several titles, and I think Do You Remember Love is among them. So if nothing else, a new title would have to be generated. Bingo. As I understand it, they had to give the remaster back to HG too. And HG proceeded to give it to ADV after the Animeigo license expired. Both. I was thinking mainly US companies, but there's a possibility that Tatsunoko may hold a stake in the international rights. And one company did a Japanese release of the English dub, so they might want a cut of things too. Like I said, it's a big standoff. Everyone and Harmony Gold thinks they own it, and they're all waiting for someone to flinch so they can shoot.